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Young pass on IT experience
YOUNG people lent the experience of youth to help teach older members of the community about using computers.
The workshop at Cornelius Vermuyden School was the second in a series of three run by Castle Point Association of Voluntary services to improve IT skills and bring the age groups together.
Michaela White, from the association, said: "It gives them a common interest. There was a real buzz when you went into the room.
"Its about bringing the different generations together to make the point not all young people are hoodies and not all old people are little grey old dears."
The computer sessions came after a ballroom dancing class where the elder generation passing on skills to the youngsters.
10:56am Saturday 17th May 2008
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CommentPosted by: Kim Gandy, Rayleigh on 3:35pm Sat 17 May 08
What an absolutely brilliant idea. I would love to do something like this with the residents of the home I work in.
I would really like to see this in action. THESE are the sorts of schemes that need promoting.
Truly worthwhile and beneficial for all concerned.
Fantastic.
What an absolutely brilliant idea. I would love to do something like this with the residents of the home I work in.
I would really like to see this in action. THESE are the sorts of schemes that need promoting.
Truly worthwhile and beneficial for all concerned.
Fantastic.
Posted by: Margaret Stoll, Rochford on 4:06pm Sat 17 May 08
There is a group called the Lapttop Club which can be contacted through www.rravs.org.uk (Rayleigh and Rochford Association of Voluntary Services). This is for people who might be called 'silver surfers'. My husband Barry has been involved in it for 2 or 3 years now - he never touched a computer until after his 60th birthday but, as he says, he took to it 'like a duck to water' and now helps, encourages and teaches others, in a voluntary capacity.
They used to meet at King Edmund School, then at the Mary Anne Centre in Dalys Road, more lately at the Parish Rooms in Rochford.
Many of the people he has met through this have had a new lease of life. One lady talks to her family in Vancouver via webcam, things that were never possible pre-computers.
There is a group called the Lapttop Club which can be contacted through www.rravs.org.uk (Rayleigh and Rochford Association of Voluntary Services). This is for people who might be called 'silver surfers'. My husband Barry has been involved in it for 2 or 3 years now - he never touched a computer until after his 60th birthday but, as he says, he took to it 'like a duck to water' and now helps, encourages and teaches others, in a voluntary capacity.
They used to meet at King Edmund School, then at the Mary Anne Centre in Dalys Road, more lately at the Parish Rooms in Rochford.
Many of the people he has met through this have had a new lease of life. One lady talks to her family in Vancouver via webcam, things that were never possible pre-computers.
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